simple past tense and past participle of backlight
backlog
backlog
noun
A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
A log containing text previously read, as in text-based video games or chat rooms.
A reserve source or supply.
An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog
baglike
baglike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bag.
bakalai
bakalei
bakerly
bakerly
adj
Characteristic of a baker.
baklava
baklava
noun
A popular sweet pastry found in many cuisines of the Middle East and the Balkans, made of chopped nuts layered with phyllo pastry. [since c. 1650; modern spelling since 1800s]
baklawa
balkans
balkans
Proper noun
A geographical region in the southeast of Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia (and Kosovo), sometimes including Romania and Slovenia.
balkers
balkers
noun
plural of balker
balkier
balkier
adj
comparative form of balky: more balky
balkily
balkily
adv
In a balky manner.
balking
balking
noun
A frustration or disappointment; a check.
verb
present participle of balk
balkish
balkish
adj
(obsolete, rare) uneven; ridgy
ballock
ballock
noun
Alternative spelling of bollock
barkley
barlock
bashlik
bashlik
noun
Alternative spelling of bashlyk
bashlyk
bashlyk
noun
A protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.
bathkol
batlike
batlike
adj
Having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal.
Similar to that of a bat.
baulked
baulked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of baulk
baylike
baylike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bay (body of water mostly surrounded by land).
bazluke
beakful
beakful
noun
As much (food) as a creature's beak will hold or carry.
bechalk
bechalk
verb
(archaic) To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.
beckley
beckley
Proper noun
a village in district, East Sussex, England
a hamlet in district, Hampshire, England
a village in district, Oxfordshire, England
a neighbourhood in Kentucky, USA.
a city in West Virginia, USA, and the county seat of Named after
becloak
becloak
verb
(transitive, literally, figurative) To cover or surround, as with a cloak.
bedlike
bedlike
adj
Resembling a bed.
beelike
beelike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bee.
befleck
befleck
verb
(poetic) to cover with small spots or flecks
bekelja
beliked
beliked
adj
Beloved; liked.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of belike
belknap
belleek
belleek
noun
Alternative form of Belleek.
belouke
belucki
benkley
berkley
beshlik
beshlik
noun
(historical) A silver coin of the Ottoman Empire.
beyliks
beyliks
noun
plural of beylik
biblike
biblike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bib.
bikales
bilcock
bilcock
noun
The European water rail.
bilicki
bilkers
bilkers
noun
plural of bilker
bilking
bilking
noun
The act of one who bilks (in any sense).
verb
present participle of bilk
blacked
blacked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of black
blacken
blacken
verb
(intransitive, ergative) To become black.
(transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
(transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
(transitive, causative) To make dirty.
To defame or sully.
blacker
blacker
adj
comparative form of black: more black
noun
One who blacks.
blackey
blackie
blackie
noun
Alternative spelling of blacky
blackit
blackly
blackly
adv
Darkly or gloomily.
Wickedly.
With a black appearance.
blakely
blakely
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
blalock
blanked
blanked
adj
(euphemistic, dated) damned; accursed (from the euphemistic printed form d—d)
In a state of blankness.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blank
blanker
blanker
adj
comparative form of blank: more blank
noun
(computing) An early form of screensaver that blanked out the screen display when it was not in use.
blanket
blanket
adj
General; covering or encompassing everything.
noun
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
A layer of anything.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
verb
(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
(transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
(transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
(transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
(transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
blankit
blankly
blankly
adv
in a blank manner, especially showing no emotion or expression.
blaubok
blaubok
noun
(archaic) The bluebuck.
blautok
bleaker
bleaker
adj
comparative form of bleak: more bleak
bleakly
bleakly
adv
In a bleak manner.
bleeker
blenker
blesbok
blesbok
noun
Alternative form of blesbuck
blickey
blickey
noun
(dialectal, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, dated) A canister or dinner pail usually of tin.
blickie
blinked
blinked
adj
(Appalachia) Sour.
Affected with blinking.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of blink
blinker
blinker
noun
(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation.
(informal, US, automotive) Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile.
(rare) The eyelid.
(slang) A black eye.
Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways.
Whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
verb
(transitive) To put blinkers on.
blksize
blocked
blocked
adj
(Ireland, slang) Drunk
(of a computer account or similar) Disabled or disconnected, so as to prevent access.
(of a person, telephone number, IP address, etc.) Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.
Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded.
Unable to move owing to an obstruction.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of block
blocker
blocker
noun
(card games) A playing card, needed by one player, that is held by another.
(computing) A bug or issue that prevents software from being released.
(computing) An application that stops / impedes unauthorised access to a programme.
(computing) One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
(marketing) A gatekeeper who refuses the marketer access to the person they wish to contact.
(poker) A blocker bet.
(sports) One who blocks or impedes the movement of an opponent.
A close-fitting rectangular glove worn by a goalie in multiple forms of hockey.
A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) hats.
A puberty blocker.
blockus
blunker
blunket
blunket
adj
(obsolete) Gray; grayish or light blue.
noun
(obsolete) A cloth, or kind of cloth (blanket cloth), generally but not always of this color.
(obsolete) A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet.
bolckow
bollock
bollock
noun
(Britain, Ireland, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.
verb
(Britain, transitive, vulgar, slang) To reprimand severely and grossly.
(Britain, vulgar, slang) To exhaust, tire out.
bookful
bookful
adj
(obsolete) Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.
noun
As much as a book holds.
booklet
booklet
noun
A small or thin book.
bowkail
bowlike
bowlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bow (bent frame for firing arrows).
boxlike
boxlike
adj
similar to a box
boylike
boylike
adj
Resembling a boy.
brekkle
brickel
brickle
brickle
adj
(Appalachia or archaic or dialect) Alternative form of breakle
verb
(Canada, dialect) To fail spectacularly.
brickly
brickly
adj
(dialect) fragile; brittle
briskly
briskly
adv
Fast, quickly, swiftly.
brockle
brockle
adj
Of animals: variegated, speckled, multicolored; usually used in the phrase brockle-faced.
Of food odors: malodorous, flatulent, pungent: smelling of sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, or hydrogen disulfide.
bruckle
bruckle
adj
(dialectal) Frail, weak, fragile.
bruskly
bruskly
adv
Alternative spelling of brusquely
bubukle
bubukle
noun
(obsolete, nonce word) A red pimple.
buckels
buckled
buckled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buckle
buckler
buckler
noun
(nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
(zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
One who buckles something.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To shield; to defend.
buckles
buckles
noun
plural of buckle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buckle
buckley
bucklin
bucklum
budlike
budlike
adj
Resembling a bud (newly formed leaf or flower, not yet unfolded).
bulkage
bulkage
noun
bulk
bulkier
bulkier
adj
comparative form of bulky: more bulky
bulkily
bulkily
adv
in a bulky manner
bulking
bulking
noun
(bodybuilding) A period of intentional weight gain.
verb
present participle of bulk
bulkish
bulkish
adj
bulky; large
bullock
bullock
noun
(archaic) A young bull.
A castrated bull; an ox.
verb
To bully.
bulwark
bulwark
noun
(figurative) Any means of defence or security.
(nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
A breakwater.
A defense or safeguard.
A defensive wall or rampart.
verb
(transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
(transitive) To provide protection of defense for something.
burkley
burlesk
burlesk
noun
Obsolete form of burlesque.
bytalks
colback
deblock
deblock
verb
(transitive) To unblock; remove a blockage from.
(transitive, computing) To process (digital video) so as to remove block-shaped artifacts of encoding.
(transitive, computing) To separate the logical records that have been combined into a physical block for storage.
eckblad
eelback
flyback
flyback
noun
A special kind of electrical transformer, originally designed to generate high-voltage sawtooth signals at a relatively high frequency, and now extensively used in switched-mode power supplies.
The movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display.
flybook
flybook
noun
(fishing) A small case for holding fishing flies.
gablock
gablock
noun
A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock.
geelbek
hoblike
inkblot
inkblot
noun
(figuratively) A dark, shapeless object.
(psychology) Any of the pictures used as stimuli in the Rorschach inkblot test.
A blot of ink.
kabalas
kabbala
kabbala
name
Alternative spelling of Kaballah
kablesh
kabylia
kalimba
kalimba
noun
(music) A type of thumb piano, similar to the mbira.
karbala
keblahs
keblahs
noun
plural of keblah
kerbela
kibbled
kibbled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of kibble
kibbler
kibbler
noun
A device that kibbles grain; A person who operates such a device
kibbles
kibbles
noun
plural of kibble
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kibble
kiblahs
kiblahs
noun
plural of kiblah
kilnrib
kilobar
kilobar
noun
(physics) A unit of pressure equal to 1,000 bars (Symbol: kb)
kilobit
kilobit
noun
(computing) 1000 bits (binary digits)
(computing, rare) 1024 (2¹⁰) bits
kimball
kimball
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
A hamlet in Alberta, Canada
A city in Minnesota
A city in Nebraska
A town in South Dakota
A town in Tennessee
A town in West Virginia
A town in Wisconsin
kimbell
klabund
kleiber
klipbok
klipbok
noun
klipspringer
knabble
knobble
knobble
noun
A small knob.
verb
(transitive) To give a knobbly surface to.
(transitive, metallurgy) To produce wrought iron by treating (semirefined puddled iron) on a hearth before shingling.
knobbly
knobbly
adj
Having a covering of small knobs.
knubbly
knubbly
adj
knobbly
knublet
koblenz
koblenz
Proper noun
An independent city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany